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China's economic recovery
Asia focus, Suwatchai Songwanich, Published on 12/10/2020
» China's economic recovery continues to accelerate, with retail sales growing in August for the first time this year. Investment and property activity also gathered speed and there was a sharp spike in manufacturing production with the steepest rate of growth in new orders since the start of 2011. The Purchasing Managers Index, which includes services, also rose, while unemployment in urban areas dropped, with the 5.6% jobless rate the lowest since January.
Carbon-neutral China
Asia focus, Suwatchai Songwanich, Published on 05/10/2020
» While US President Donald Trump concentrated on turning up the political heat on China in his recent address to the United Nations General Assembly, President Xi Jinping surprised many by using his speech to announce China's ambition to become a world leader in tackling global warming and become carbon-neutral by 2060.
China's e-commerce evolution
Asia focus, Suwatchai Songwanich, Published on 28/09/2020
» China's government is preparing to accelerate the growth of its already rapidly expanding e-commerce sector by establishing 15 new national e-commerce demonstration bases. These are industry clusters for e-commerce companies and the incubation platforms needed to foster the sector's development.
Brands jump on China's Qixi Festival
Asia focus, Suwatchai Songwanich, Published on 21/09/2020
» The Qixi Festival or "Double Seven Festival" is China's Valentine's Day, falling on the seventh day of the seventh month in the lunar calendar -- Aug 25 this year. Celebrating a 2,000-year-old love story in Chinese mythology, Qixi has turned into a major shopping and gift-giving occasion that could rival Singles Day in November.
China steps up as digital currency pioneer
Asia focus, Suwatchai Songwanich, Published on 14/09/2020
» The People's Bank of China is blazing a new virtual trail with pilot tests of its national digital currency around the country. Digital Currency Electronic Payment (DCEP), the digital version of the renminbi, will be tested in Shenzhen, Suzhou, Xiongan and Chengdu and at venues of the 2022 Winter Olympics scheduled for Beijing and vicinity.
Questions surround cutting-edge tech
Asia focus, Suwatchai Songwanich, Published on 07/09/2020
» As 5G technology continues to roll out around the world and digital storage becomes cheaper and more efficient, the profound impact this will have on the business world is becoming clearer than ever.
International student market shaken up
Asia focus, Suwatchai Songwanich, Published on 31/08/2020
» Educational institutions around the world are reeling from the effects of the coronavirus pandemic, which is preventing new and existing international students -- their number exceeds 5 million globally -- from attending the universities and colleges of their choice in person.
Airport cluster boosts Greater Bay Area
Asia focus, Suwatchai Songwanich, Published on 24/08/2020
» Despite the catastrophic impact of the Covid-19 crisis on airline travel, China is pushing ahead with the construction of an airport cluster in the Guangdong-Hong Kong-Macau Greater Bay Area, in a bid to support its ambitious goals for this dynamic economic region of 70 million people.
High office vacancy rates trouble China
Asia focus, Suwatchai Songwanich, Published on 17/08/2020
» China's economy has rebounded since the coronavirus outbreak eased, but office vacancies in major cities are at their highest since the global financial crisis in 2008, reaching an average of 15% in the first quarter of this year.
The rise and fall of US chicken feet in China
Asia focus, Suwatchai Songwanich, Published on 10/08/2020
» The chicken trade between the United States and China has always been a fruitful but complicated one. Chinese consumers prefer dark meat and chicken feet (or paws, in industry parlance) with US consumers opting for white meat.